Degree of Urbanisation

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1. Story
2. A grid-based method for classifying settlements, developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre with UN partners and endorsed for international statistical comparison. Population is allocated to one-square-kilometre cells; contiguous clusters above defined density and total-population thresholds become cities, lower clusters become towns and semi-dense areas, and the remainder is rural. Its point is that a country's own definition of "urban" is a legal artefact — some states set the threshold at 2,000 inhabitants, some at 50,000, some by administrative status alone — so a global urban share assembled from national definitions is an aggregate of incomparable things. World Urbanization Prospects 2025 integrated the method for the first time and lowered the minimum population for a named city from 300,000 to 50,000, bringing more than 12,000 cities into the analysis. The consequence is uncomfortable and instructive: measurement choices moved Jakarta from 33rd to first in the ranking of the world's largest cities without a single person moving house.
3. Knowledge
4. Twenty-first-century urbanisation
5. Degree of Urbanisation
6. Connections
7. Twenty-first-century urbanisation
8. Jakarta
9. The world is reported to become majority urban
10. World Urbanization Prospects 2025 changes the measurement
11. Degree of Urbanisation
12. Sub-Saharan African urban growth
13. Agglomeration
14. Urban cooling demand
15. The world is reported to become majority urban
16. Nigeria's census is postponed again
17. The JMP reports flat urban water coverage
18. World Urbanization Prospects 2025 changes the measurement
19. Where the next billion city dwellers are projected to be
20. Evidence
21. Establishes the 2025 settlement shares (45 per cent cities, 36 per cent towns, 19 per cent rural), the count of 33 megacities, the projection of about 982 million additional city dwellers by 2050 concentrated in seven countries, and the first full integration of the Degree of Urbanisation. V55 verification basis: the UN's own release page carried the headline population-share and megacity claims and attributed them to this report; WebFetch is blocked in this environment, so the Summary of Results volume itself was not opened and the finer figures rest on the release and its summaries.